Quarterly Meeting: Red Hat and F5 enabling Multi-Cloud OpenShift solutions

Join us for our Quarterly Meeting!

Quarterly meetings feature a longer program in the afternoon at an offsite location. We'll start with networking time with drinks and appetizers before our main program on using Openshift with F5.

Presenters:
Alfredo Quiroga - Red Hat
Paul Pindell - F5
Tom McGonagle - F5

Imagine the ability to seamlessly present multiple OpenShift environments hosting a geographically and/or platform distributed application that can survive a BC/DR event, scale into a public Cloud as needed, and where you can host critical functions securely on premises, but still take advantage of Public cloud economics. Six months ago Red Hat and F5 did just that. We imagined what we initially called the Mother of All Demos. In this demo, we will showcase a single application running across on-prem and Azure hosted OpenShift environments. We will utilize Ansible Tower for the zero-day deployment of the F5 networking pieces into these environments. F5 BIG-IP will be deployed with our open sourced Container Connector into both environments to provide intelligent DNS, North-South Ingress routing, and using F5’s incubation project, Aspen Mesh, a supported, enterprise-grade Istio distribution will be deployed to secure East-West application traffic.

• Paul Pindell is a Sr. Manager of Architecture at F5 Networks. He has spent the last 8+ years in Business Development at F5 building partner related solutions. For the past two and a half years Paul has been focused on Red Hat as a partner. Paul speaks regularly at industry conferences and spends time training field Sales teams at F5 and at F5’s partners. “I have the best job in the world. My team and I are given mad scientist lab resources to research joint partner solutions, determine if they are technically feasible, document those that are, and then go on the road to evangelize those solutions around the world.”

• Tom is a Senior Product Management Engineer focused on DevOps and Programmability products at F5 Networks. He jumped into DevOps with both feet in 2007 when he first heard about Puppet. Since then he has worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Red Hat, and CloudBees as a DevOps Consultant and Site Reliability Engineer. Tom has been working with Ansible since his Red Hat days and you can read about this story as it is memorialized at: https://blog.openshift.com/why-openshift-picked-ansible/

• Alfredo Quiroga (@lawwton) is Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at Red Hat with 15+ years of diverse experiences across several different industries.
  Alfredo has spent time at many companies, working under Operations as well as designing and writing enterprise ready software. Currently, working for Red Hat as a Cloud SA, concentrating on OpenShift, CloudForms, Ansible and Satellite. Alfredo spends considerable time working with companies in the United States as well as Canada in the Financial Sector; helping customers modernize their applications and infrastructure to make them cloud ready.